斯威本科技大学

Our Master of Urban Design equips you with concepts and skills that will future-proof your career as an urban designer, project manager or urban planner. Graduates from our Master of Architecture and Urban Design can also pursue careers in architecture.

Urban Design is about shaping urban environments across a range of scales — from individual buildings and streets to neighbourhoods, suburbs and entire cities and their wider regions. Through a future-focused, design-led approach, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of how transport, community, environment, economy and policy fit together to make the healthy, inclusive, culturally-significant and sustainable places we can all call ‘home’.

Use cutting-edge tech to master visual communication and data/urban analytics skills while develop your spatial thinking skills by combining architectural, creative and evidence-based approaches to urban challenges. You’ll get to engage with industry experts and tackle real-world issues like designing for the future health, sustainable mobility and resilience of cities.

Our students love the positive opportunity Urban Design provides for thinking in more integrated ways about places.

Career opportunities

Master of Urban Design graduates will be knowledgeable about contemporary urban design thinking and be skilled in cutting edge urban analysis and design technology. Urban design and strategic planning skills are highly sought after in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The course’s emphasis upon urban information, data and modelling situates our graduates in a highly competitive position to attain work locally and globally in areas such as: private practices including: urban design practices, architecture practices, landscape architecture practices, and planning practices; local government: planning authorities and local city councils.

The Master of Urban Design course will embed authentic learning experiences, such as real-world project briefs in design studio, enabling students to get the experience and develop the competencies most in demand. This course also aims to develop pathways for students from and into related fields, such as planning, architecture, and landscape architecture.

Aims and objectives

Students who successfully complete the Master of Urban Design will be able to apply specialised knowledge in Urban Design to demonstrate discipline specific, knowledge, skills and attributes. Specifically, they will be able to:

critically reflect on and apply knowledge of contemporary urban design theory and practice demonstrating comprehension of international and local planning theory and history, planning law and statutory planning, urban economics, sustainability, land use and urban design, and strategic planning

apply analytical design research methods with an understanding of sourcing credible, relevant data to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and apply these to the broader social, economic and environmental urban processes